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Laura Pincus Hartman stood before a congregation in a church just south of 75th Street, gazing at anticipatory faces.

The pastor had just finished preaching an hour-long sermon from the Gospel of Mark about Jesus healing a woman. Hartman was about to speak for the second time that day at a Chicago church, looking for anyone willing to reach out to students at a school she helped build in Haiti.

She talked of the kids' needs for aspirin, Band-Aids, Robitussin -- anything, really.

"By doing just a small amount," she said, "each of us can make such a huge difference in their lives."

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